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Old tech, new twist: NeoLucida inventor to speak in Philly Thursday
At its most basic level, it’s a prism on a stick. Aim it at an object, put your eye just above the prism and on the paper below app
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Should this be Philadephia’s new city flag?
The Philadelphia city flag. You really don’t see it that much.
“You really don’t,” said Edward Mitchell, a
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Can entrepreneurs improve public safety? Philly launches FastFWD to find out
Philadelphia has its problems. The city wants entrepreneurs to help fix them.
In a nutshell, that’s the idea behind FastFWD
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Philadelphia’s city-backed seed fund just announced its first investment
And the first investment from
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Philly is getting an Innovators Walk of Fame. Here’s the inaugural class
It ain’t no Hollywood Walk of Fame, but it’s a start.
By late 2014, Philadelphia will have its own “Innovators W
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Solar-powered battery charger takes top prize in Drexel incubator competition
Every year, Drexel’s Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship puts on a competition. Startups launched by Drexel students and alu
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Rutgers instructor: During zombie apocalypse, you’d be fine
With Halloween coming up, an instructor at Rutgers-Camden has a survival guide for you — a zombie survival guide.
Kimberlee Sue
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Fixing Philly schools with 5 senses
Because scent can fix Philadelphia’s public schools.
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Meals from a climate-changed future: GhostFood
Imagine a future where cod, peanuts and,
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Makerspace 3rd Ward unexpectedly closes
So much for all that: 3rd Ward — both the Brooklyn flagship and the newly opened Philadelphia location (which we
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A high-tech makeover for the new $100 bill
Starting today, there’s a new $100 bill.
“The biggest difference between the old and the new is the 3-D security ribbo
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How Pa. startups are getting $75M more in state funding
With government budgets tight, Harrisburg is finding new ways to help Pennsylvania tech entrepreneurs — by borrowing against future tax
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‘For profit, for good’: How ‘Junto 2013’ rallied local business leaders
“This is a business retreat, but maybe not the business retreat most people would imagine,” said
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CHOP partners with VC fund to funnel revenue back into research
Commercializing research from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is nothing new. One of its biggest hits is a rotavirus v
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